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Column: It's time to think big on climate change
The Chicago Tribune ^ | February 9, 2019 | by Eugene Robinson (D)

Posted on 02/11/2019 11:43:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: dsrtsage

Imagine if we were in the middle of the Dust Bowl?

from Wikipedia:

The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.[1][2] The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.[3] With insufficient understanding of the ecology of the plains, farmers had conducted extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains during the previous decade; this had displaced the native, deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds


41 posted on 02/11/2019 1:02:09 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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I’ve been reading articles about the Northern magnetic pole moving as much as 30 miles a year. Any truth to this and what would it have to do with climate change? Not saying there’s anything to it, just askin’.


42 posted on 02/11/2019 1:14:11 PM PST by beelzepug (OCD and proud of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mail everyone one tree seed. Assuming half sprout that will be 170 million new trees which are carbon scrubbers. Problem solved. Tell companies their logos can go on envelopes if they pay for it.


43 posted on 02/11/2019 1:15:05 PM PST by bc42875
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

44 posted on 02/11/2019 1:16:33 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: EQAndyBuzz; Taxman
"And still no mention on what the solution is"

Here's the solution

Florida Power & Light aims to install more solar panels than any regulated utility

They say about 30 million solar panels in the next 10 years, which is about 10 Gigawatts of electricity

That will reduce their CO2 emissions by 67% and about 40% of the power they produce will be renewable

45 posted on 02/11/2019 1:18:41 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: beelzepug

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question782.htm

...The Earth’s magnetic poles move. The magnetic North Pole moves in loops of up to 50 miles (80 km) per day.

But its actual location, an average of all these loops, is also moving at around 25 miles a year.

In the last 150 years, the pole has wandered a total of about 685 miles (1102 kilometers). The magnetic South Pole moves in a similar fashion...


46 posted on 02/11/2019 1:20:31 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: C210N
"Just inventing technology that’s never been invented."

No.

Listen to your social betters.

The answer to airflight is ....trains.

Yes sir, the technology of the future.

A bridge to the 19th Century.

Trains.

47 posted on 02/11/2019 1:47:58 PM PST by boop (I say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse.)
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To: palmer
currently rate is 30 times too low for that to happen

Yep, last time I read anything about this, the rise was 2mm/year. Which begs two questions:

How can scientists measure an oceanic rise of 2 mm? (they can't...)

200mm equals about 8 inches a century. Would anyone notice? (nope)

48 posted on 02/11/2019 1:49:58 PM PST by wbill
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To: Army Air Corps

Grift, indeed. “Scientists” can’t even agree if eggs are good for you or bad for you, but they are rock solid on the climate habits of a 6 billion year old planet. Yes, this is all a scam.


49 posted on 02/11/2019 2:03:16 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Ben Ficklin

At what cost to the environment to produce and install the damn things!

For instance, how many batteries are they going to need to provide power when there is no sun?

Glo-Bull warming is a hoax and a massive FRaud!

As is green energy!

A POX on both their houses!


50 posted on 02/11/2019 2:20:02 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Extortionists, criminals, scoundrels, see the scam before them and all it takes is legislation


51 posted on 02/11/2019 5:14:22 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: samtheman

It’s in Europe I think...


52 posted on 02/11/2019 6:09:20 PM PST by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I agree 100% , it’s time to think big on climate change. It’s way past time to identify it as the biggest scam in world history.


53 posted on 02/11/2019 8:23:37 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Nateman

What we have here is bunch of spoiled children, the more we ignore them, the louder they scream.


54 posted on 02/11/2019 8:30:43 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: boop

The snowflakes are going to be really upset when you tell them that they need to take a rowboat to go visit aunt Mildred in Hawaii next Christmas.


55 posted on 02/11/2019 8:34:52 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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